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Add MS 35303
- Record Id:
- 040-002088779
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002088775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001490.0x00013a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35303
- Title:
- BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. IV. ‘A Supplementary Chapter to the Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart.’
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph manuscript of a supplementary chapter to Sir John Barrow’s autobiographical memoir, which was published in 1847.
Inscribed (f 4r): ‘A Supplementary Chapter to the Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart.’
An account of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club, with biographical notices of the Presidents of the Society, and of some of its most distinguished Fellows, during Sir John Barrow's association with it, from 1806 to 1848. The chapter was published in 1849 as Sketches of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club (London: John Murray).
Note by Barrow’s son, Colonel John Barrow, on f. 1v: ‘Written at the age of 85, without the aid of glasses-and upon which he was engaged on the last evening of his life. Subsequently (‘printed not’ inserted in pencil) published by his sons’. In Add MS 35301, f. 2, Col. Barrow speaks of this as ‘the Supplementary Chapter, which was barely completed when my Father breathed his last, and which was printed (but not published) subsequently to his death.’
Includes a portrait of Sir J. Barrow, engraved after Lucas (f. 2v), a letter from Anna Frederica Brande to Sir J. Barrow, 1848 (ff. 166-167v), and at the end (f.f 170-171) a biographical notice by [Sir George Thomas] S[taunton, 2nd Baronet], reprinted from the Times of 1 Dec. 1848.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002088775
040-002088779 - Is part of:
- Add MS 35300-35309 : Manuscripts bequeathed by Colonel John Barrow (1808-98), F.R.S., formerly Keeper of the Records of the Admiralty
Add MS 35303 : BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. IV. ‘A Supplementary Chapter to the Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart.’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-002088775[0004]/040-002088779
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 35300-35309
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (171 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_35303 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1848
- End Date:
- 1848
- Date Range:
- 1848
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Folio.
Foliation: 171 folios.
- Publications:
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John Barrow, An Auto-biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., Late of the Admiralty (London: John Murray, 1847)
John Barrow, Sketches of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club (London: John Murray, 1849)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)